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Well, as I note in the introduction, it's tough being from around here.

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Words and Music M. Rubin

"There’s Jews in Oklahoma?” asks the average landsman
“And Mississippi, Tennessee and sunny Alabam?”
“Heck ya says I, kan machs a lieb. Is this to you some news?
For NYC seems quite exotic to us Southern Jews

We’re mostly in the Agri business, like Tevye milking cows
You can pick our farms out from the rest by the absence of any sows
Our Yankee kin’s poor manners, we often must excuse
No pigs in our poke, no we ain’t no joke, we’re down home Southern Jews

We take the bacon off our cheese burgers and we greet with a "howdy ya’ll"
We drive to schul on Shabbes in our best pressed overalls
We’re famous for our BBQ, it’s kosher beef so you can’t refuse
Wears a trucker cap for a kipa, the streimel of a Southern Jew
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To some down here we pass for white, say “at least they sure ain’t Black”
That might be true for some down here but you always gotta watch your back
Our skin tone give us some relief, some days we get to choose
You gotta navigate your privileges, when you live as a Southern Jew

Tell ya ‘bout Judah Benjamin, Confederate Sec. of War
On the wrong side of history, well it’s true our arc was bent
In the war of Northern Aggression they think they got a higher score
But look around today, you really gotta say, they sho-nuf lost the War.

Did we kill your Lord? Hell yes we did!
Bring him back and we’ll kill em again!
And the good old boys all belly laugh cuz we’re all the best of friends
Now that sort of talk might shock you, in fact it might confuse
It’s tsouris like that all the live long day, when you’re life is a Southern Jew.

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from Songs for the Hangman's Daughter, released March 28, 2017
Banjo and vocals

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Mark Rubin, Jew of Oklahoma New Orleans, Louisiana

Oklahoma-born, Texas-reared, and now living in New Orleans, multi-instrumentalist Mark Rubin is an unabashed Southern Jew.

Known equally for his muscular musicianship and larger-than-life persona. Over an accomplished 30+ year career, he has accompanied or produced a virtual who’s-who of American traditional music. With Danny Barnes, he founded Pioneer Proto-Americana band the Bad Livers
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